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"They're coet out of here in a hurry The whole post is searching for you I thought that they went toward the south, though Some of them must have circled"

"What'll you do if I take your horse?" asked Billy

"I can walk back," said Bridge, "it isn't far to town I'll tell them that I had come only a short distance when my horse threw me and ran away They'll believe it for they think I'm a rotten horseman--the two vaqueros who escorted e," he said

"You ether it'll et it, for I'll stick with you, Billy, and we can't fight off a whole troop of cavalry out here in the open If you take et out of it, and later I'll see you in Rio Good-bye, Billy, I' the road on foot

Billy watched hie's statement of fact was so apparent that Billy was forced to accept the plan A e's pony, swung into the saddle, and took a last backward look at the di in the direction of Cuivaca

"Say," he ht one, bo," and wheeling to the north he clapped his spurs to his new ht